I mean to be fair, from my memories of being a teenage boy, I always used to start with thinking everything was a romantic thing, only to ruthlessly crush that thought without mercy because I figured it was just wishful thinking on my end and didn’t want to seem weird, so unless there’s an inner monologue describing exactly what they’re thinking, I feel like the standard dense protagonists aren’t too unrealistic either in their own way. You know, most of the time at least.